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  • ...omponent of a word that (a) seems to contribute some sort of meaning, or a grammatical function to the word to which it belongs, and (b) cannot itself be decompos ''Kangaroo'' is one morpheme. ''Kangaroos'' is two morphemes, ''kangaroo'' and plural ''-s''. The ''-s''
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  • A '''suffix''' is is a [[bound morpheme]] (or [[affix]]) which attaches at the righthand side of a [[base]], i.e. w ...nds. But the apparently parallel terms “prefix”, "suffix”, “infix” are not grammatical; they refer, rather to positional classes of the morphs which represent bou
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  • Tense refers to the grammatical expression of the time of the situation described in the proposition, relat ...ll'' has undergone a process of [[grammaticalization]], during which a new grammatical category has developed. This view of the existence of three tenses (present
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